Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and be the world champion.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.